ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Sardar Ayaz Sadiq has been re-elected as Speaker National Assembly after securing 268 out of 300 votes on November 9, 2015.
At least 42 Members of National Assembly did not participate in the election, while Sadiq later took oath for the seat of speakership in front of all Member National Assembly (MNA) present.
All the main stream political parties besides, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), in the assembly backed him in polls for the crucial post.
The only candidate contesting against Ayaz Sadiq was PTI’s Shafqat Mahmood. While, the lawmaker Syed Ghazi Gulab Jamal had though submitted his nomination papers for the election but later he withdrew in support of Sardar Ayaz Sadiq.
Sardar Ayaz Sadiq had to leave his seat in August this year when the Lahore Election Tribunal disqualified him and ordered fresh polls in NA-122, a Lahore’s constituency from where Sadiq secured the NA seat by defeating Imran Khan in May 2013 general elections.
Later, the by-election took place in NA-122 on October 11, 2015 in which the PML-N Candidate again emerged victorious against the PTI candidate Aleem Khan.
